Demanding justice for george florries. 2 and a half months after the coronavirus close to the mosque an occupied East Jerusalem reopens to worship. Also ahead just a phone call away the zimbabwean grandmothers helping people with lockdown anxiety and depression. And on some a 100 or so with this board including x. In the form germanys top Forward Division as by munich crash a fortune at 5 nil closer to where cord extending 30th when does he get title. Curfews are in place in more than 2 dozen u. S. States after protests entered a 4th night the demonstrations were mostly peaceful but at times they did become violent or than 1400. 00 people have been arrested for 17 cities now began in response to the death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody but now its real work. National outrage over racism sometimes at the hands of Police Officers mike hanna begins our coverage of. What started out as peaceful protests in dozens of cities or ruptured in violence in Los Angeles Police vehicles were set on fire sending plumes of black smoke over the area similar scenes in cities ranging from seattle where a 5 pm curfew has been set to miami where thousands gathered through the day and where like in so many other areas a standoff with police ended in clouds of tear gas in chicago where demonstrators held signs carrying messages of protest that were repeated throughout the nation. In new york a city that is still to emerge from the ravages of the pandemic a series of protests took place throughout the 5 boroughs and in minneapolis the city where george floyd was killed and where the National Wave of protests began. The president left the white house in the morning to attend the space x. Launch and afterwards expressed his sympathy for george floyd and his family but also had this to say about the protesters the memory of george floyd is being dishonored by riders looters and anarchists the violence and vandalism is being led by anti fur and other radical left wing groups who are terrorizing the innocent destroying jobs. Hurting businesses and burning down buildings this in the wake of a tweet saying if protesters had broken the secret service ring outside the white house they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs and most are ministers weapons i have seen the reference to vicious dogs seen by washingtons mayor Muriel Bowser as a throwback to the police use of dogs on African American civil rights activists decades ago and in an extraordinary tweet often the mayor lashed out at the president in the white house saying and i quote while he hides behind his fence afraid alone i stand with people peacefully exercising their 1st amendment right after the murder of george floyd and hundreds of years of institutional racism there are no vicious dogs and ominous weapons there is just a scared man afraid alone. Into the night crowds continue to gather within sight and sound of the president s residence clashing with police and secret Service Agents on several occasions washington d. C. Became one of more than 11 cities where the National Guard has been mobilized and then with the flickering of flames and swirling smoke curfews were declared in a number of areas the same a nation just emerging from a months long lockdown in the face of a pandemic mike hanna aljazeera washington. Gabriel is on the is in new york he says events there were calm all day until small groups started causing trouble. Chaotic scenes here in new york city late in the evening im in Union Square Area of the city you can see that some of the protests turned out to be violent in a way this is where the real heart of the major conflict between police and protesters were was held after nightfall at one point more than 2 Police Vehicles were set ablaze we saw helicopters are still at this hour buzzing over the air and there are groups of protesters still roaming in certain areas but earlier in the day we saw tens of thousands of Peaceful Protesters take to the streets in new york to have their voices heard at one point they peacefully protested right in front of trump tower in front of a heavy Police Presence and then moved down the streets of broadway down to downtown new york city where at one point they were greeted by applause by onlookers these were mostly young people all of whom said that they were out here for a reason im here for george floyd im here for all of those out lost their lives hes telling im here for black america im here for me im here for my family im here for all the america and im here for those who cant be here today well i think that america is sick and we have to root out racism and i think that white people need to stand up and do something instead of sitting on their couch and posting on their Instagram Stories this is a manifestation of anger as one man just told me says this is what happens when people get fed up many are exactly that here in new york they say stuff like this is just property that can be replaced but the life of george floyd cant be. The is in chicago one of the cities now under curfew what does this mean for the people there all the abiding by the curfew. Actually even after the curfew went into effect on saturday evening i saw images from downtown of people remaining on the streets and clashing with police the city of chicago implemented a curfew on saturday evening until further notice it was forced to do this after for the 3rd time in a 24 hour period protesters and clearly people intent on wreaking havoc clashed with police destroyed buildings and looted so from 9 pm until 6 am until further notice there will be a curfew in chicago the police has vowed if you are on the street during that curfew you will be arrested and again the images that we saw in the evening were very disturbing we saw people throwing Water Bottles and firecrackers at police the mayor said people were throwing bottles with the urine in them at Police People were carrying bats pipes shovels we saw looting people spraying profanity on Police Vehicles top trying to topple them over some Police Vehicles were lit on fire restaurants and Department Store called macys people smashed in the windows and were looting remember that businesses are already struggling because of the bit pandemic so this is adding insult to injury. Now the attempt was to try to contain the crowd the 2nd protest on saturday was mid afternoon it began at about 2 pm at the Federal Building downtown there are as many as a by some estimates 3000 people and what happened is people began marching and then dispersing to the focal points of the protests were downtown and trump tower along the Chicago River so in an attempt to contain the crowd the Illinois State police began shutting down several highway right. Amps and sections of lake shore drive which is a major north south corridor into chicago they also which is something many people say they had never seen before raise all of the bridges over the Chicago River to prevent people again from spreading out across the city of visibly angry mayor Laurie Lightfoot appeared on saturday evening on television and said i am watching a tragedy unfold in our city a peaceful protest devolved into criminal contact and its worth noting that the majority of protesters were peaceful and in fact theres been a discussion underway that the people who are creating destroying things committing acts of violence arent actually protesters theyre just hell bent on. Committing criminal acts the illinois National Guard has not been called in as of yet but chicago joins the more than 2 dozen cities in the United States that have been forced to implement a curfew this is historic this is the 1st time this is happened since the assassination of the civil rights icon reverend dr Martin Luther king in 1968 when there was major unrest across this country tasha thank you very much. Well for decades incidents of Excessive Force being used on black people of lead to talk of reform but little action in march of 1901 video of rodney king being beaten in los angeles that was broadcast around the world the acquittal of officers involved spot days of riots in february 2012 Trayvon Martin was shot dead by a member of a Neighborhood Watch group that led to the launch of the black lives Matter Movement there were several high profile deaths involving Police Officers in 2014 including eric garner Michael Brown and 12 year old tommy rice and 2015 freddie gray died in a police van in baltimore whilst in the custody of 6 offices just over a year later philander castiel was shot and killed during a traffic stop lets bring in calls sadly hes an assistant professor and historian covering the intersections of youth race and crime at Emory University he joins us from Atlanta Georgia call subtle and welcome to the news hour what has to happen here or what has to be promised to change before the situation calms down you know thank you for having me. Certainly does need to be there right and i think theres something to be cared about policy reform ocala to respond re recommend a restructuring a 1000000000 payout for police and that you know the problems are broken. But that the outcome will be very dramatically based on where you were at the abolition and dreamer and me you know aligned with the right. Group will go more. Than that and i think were turning the conversation to come about but people only do this dont they have they only resort to protests like this when they feel they have no other way of communicating their feelings to either the Police Department the governor or the president. Certainly i think thats an angle of it but there are also you know plenty of organizations who are committed to doing this type of work 247365 and i and i think its important that we identify who know people are and what kind of work that theyve been doing on the ground as well does the reaction from either local government or federal government have to be very very nuanced in this much is military police units on now on alert that is considered to be highly unusual and the fact of them being on alert could that simply serve to inflame the tensions not lessen the tensions yes no i think i think thats right i think its difficult to discuss these types of behavior back. Without understanding that much of this or much of this does begin and end with you know that advance or enhance Police Behavior and. You know id be remiss to not include conversations floating around about outside agitators and the gators. As well because you know those conversations are worry about repression is real and its hard to argue with somebody medio that are coming out of a c. E. O. Saying there are people in the who instigates in trouble full completely Different Reasons reasons of the simply protesting over the death of george floyd. Certainly thats what the footage appears to be and you know and it wouldnt be necessarily new in their historical narrative the repression is real the sort of covert action and thats ructions act and in the past you know whether were talking. Point out whether were talking you know more recently russian bought i think i think its important for us identify when long time active in everyone that recognized as real true they dont recognize faces in the crowd its important that we take that very well ok George Floyds brother we understand has had the briefest of conversations with donald trump hes saying that the conversation did not go well he got the feeling he claims that mr trump just wanted to get him off the line so the reason for the conversation we may never know is that conversation had gone in a different direction and George Floyds brother had been saying very positive things about Donald Trumps reaction to the contents of that conversation might not have helped maybe. You know and i had made a historian in the room that you know brings the nuance maybe yes i may have you know it may not have but i do think its important identify how im. Critical of the language surrounding these types of events and refrain from using language to riot and preferred term rebellion your ball and uprising so we can you know emphasize how these are tied these types of events are tied to longstanding right so what that meant i think that go beyond kind of any one particular incident ok we have to leave the cult subtly thank you very much thank you. Well solidarity protests to being held in london today hundreds have gathered in felde square and they have subsequently marched towards number 10 downing street the Prime Ministers official residence in Central London whitehall some Holding Signs that say the u. K. Is not innocent and one they can see it on your screen black lives matter it was organized by the local chapter of that organization other events are planned elsewhere in the u. K. Will stay with these live aerial pictures coming to us from the helicopter there in the skies over london and well bring in our correspondent now team barbara whats the atmosphere like. Well peter the atmosphere has disappeared im afraid to say because the thousands of black lives matter marches have made their way down this street white hole some of them stopped opposite 10 downing street the residence of Prime MinisterBoris Johnson chanting boris racist like wives of martyrs and some of the other activists here today hope pointed out when people have asked why are you protesting this isnt america they pointed out that theres a whole string of black people mainly black men who have died in Police Custody over the years with a very very rare action taken by the force and nobody convicted theyve also been chanting say his name george floyd into a fog a square earlier on they knelt down they took a knee in solidarity with those protests as weve seen in the u. S. Theyve also been saying but there are issues around to help as well of course people are aware were in the middle of a carpet 19 pandemic in the u. K. 6 out of 10 n. H. S. Health workers whove died from the virus have been blamed black and minority ethnic that is far beyond the numbers present in that workforce and among the population even if you take away factors like poverty and geography people who were black came from minority. Groups are far likelier to actually become ill and die of the disease and just to be clear here i mean the backstory to the metropolitan police force in london it has been accused itself of being institutionally racist not in the past few years not even in the past decade but there was for sure and issues there particularly over issues with say stop and search in some borrowers of london where black people were coming into the crosshairs of Police Action nobody was killed by a white Police Officer in the u. K. In london but there is an issue there at the nub of the relationship between the metropolitan police force sometimes historically and the people who make up the population of london. Oh totally this goes back decades i mean the last major. Unrest rioting in london was 2011 that was sparked by the killing of a black man who got him out but as far as 980 there were riots in the Southwest City of bristol again partly because of this issue of stop and search. Apologies for that we seem to have lost the sound circuit to my colleague on the streets of london well go back to him just as soon as we can well stay with these live pictures coming to us out of Central London you can see there from the helicopter a good few 100 perhaps thousands of people on the streets of course we will get into that loop where the metropolitan police force give us a number as to the number of demonstrators in the demonstrators will probably claim a much larger number there is a british chapter of the black lives Matter Campaign theyre organizing this much more peaceful perhaps less combustible protest there in the u. K. The may have seen across those several cities directly affected by the aftermath and the the consequential caroll aree protests and the looting that has happened across america as a result of those protests trying to call to account the people responsible for the death of george floyd 5 days ago lets wrap up some of the top stories for you here on the news mexicos preparing to ease its coronavirus lockdown even though its not past the peak will meet the medics serving on the front line. And on their way to the International Space station to nasa astronauts blast off a new era in privatized rocket travel. And action resumes in the flight capital of the world i will have more details in the sports theres. A roadside bomb blast in somalia has killed at least 8 people in a minibus passengers mostly from the same family were traveling from the capital mogadishu to a funeral in a nearby town no group has claimed responsibility but many previous attacks were blamed on al shabaab fighters. 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